Oh, if you think that's bad look up the published specifications of the
US DOE's latest Tokamak, a basket ball court sized device with
superconductors holding nearly an atomic bomb's worth of energy
surrounded by a liquid sodium blanket. What could go wrong?
On 3/15/2011 11:42 AM, AlunFoto wrote:
2011/3/15 David Parsons<parsons.da...@gmail.com>:
There is plenty of Uranium on this planet, it's not really rare.
Far more common than eg. silver. It's mining the stuff that is
difficult. AFAIK, Canada is the only country left with ore containing
1% U.
Besides that, the waste fuel can be re-used (but currently isn't due
to government policies, not from any technical reason) and the supply
can be extended for several usage cycles.
If breeder reactors had no technical issues at all, you wouldn't have
to blame the government. The Fast Flux Test Facility in USA was an
experimental breeder of sorts, wasn't it? IIRC it used liquid sodium
for cooling the core, but transferred the energy to steam before
putting it through the turbines. Nobody knows if that design is
quake-proof. It's probably not. If the steam leaked into the sodium
cirquit, it would ka-boom enough to maybe even satisfy Marvin the
Martian. :-)
Not that I claim to be an expert on these things, but then again, who is?
--
Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom!
--Marvin the Martian.
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